Legal Support Coordinator - Consumer Litigation

Legal Support Coordinator - Consumer Litigation

Job Category
: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Requisition Number
: LEGAL
001690

• Posted :
  September 4, 2026
• Full-Time

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Bloomfield Hills, MI

Dykema Gossett PLLC, a leading national law firm celebrating its 100 th anniversary in 2026, is seeking to hire a Legal Support Coordinator – Consumer Litigation in our Bloomfield Hills office. The core duties and responsibilities of this position revolve around supporting others and delivering exceptional customer service. Under the supervision of the Office Administrator, the Legal Support Coordinator is responsible for providing administrative support to meet the daily needs of the office location.

Responsibilities include assisting a national litigation legal support team for the assigned products liability group practice. The Legal Support Coordinator will electronically enter matters for new business intake (NBI), perform conflicts checks, assist with case docketing, utilize the document management system for file and document storage; and provide general clerical support to attorneys and other professional personnel. Responsibilities can vary widely from day to day, and office needs may vary depending on location.

• Provides day-to-day legal support to attorneys; primary duties include supporting the assigned products liability team and assisting with national discovery management for designated client.
• Assists with new business intake processes and data entry tasks for high volume caseload; performs conflicts checks; saves client/attorney emails, correspondence, and other legal documents in the firm’s document management system.
• Maintains case docketing schedule with discovery deadlines, trial and other legal hearing dates; stays up to date with changing docket, updates the docket with new dates and continuances, and communicates with attorneys on scheduling-related issues.
• Creates, types, modifies, and saves correspondence, memoranda, notes and legal documents, whether from drafts, originals or dictation; copies and scans documents; creates/updates binders.
• May assist with attorney time entry, travel arrangements and scheduling. Maintains list of all current billing numbers.
• As requested, may provide support for reception, the conference center and/or copy center, as duties/office needs can vary widely from day to day.
• Performs other administrative duties as assigned.

• Two years of post-high school education and related work experience.
• Two to three years of litigation experience, specifically performing Discovery-related tasks, including RFPs, RFAs, FROGs, SROGs and Notices of Deposition.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational and data entry skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Detail-oriented and possesses strong project management skills.
• High level of accuracy in work product.
• Self-motivated and efficient with the ability to multi-task a high-volume workload with minimal supervision.
• Exercises independent judgment in determining priority levels of all work assigned and assures assignments are completed in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality regarding firm and client matters; protects sensitive information.
• Experience operating administrative office equipment (e.g., high-speed copier, scanner, fax machine).
• Willingness to learn new systems and processes for increasing efficiency.
• Positive attitude, ability to execute tasks in a client-centric manner and to work effectively in a team setting and with a diverse group of people at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to take direction, receive and…